The Major League Baseball Thread: Did SI Swipe The 2025 Sports Almanac?

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NWR_insanolord:
I think he meant people with no stake in it would root for the Jays or Indians over the Nationals, but not the Dodgers (and especially not the Cubs).

Ian Sane:
So I realize that the most recent champ of the final four teams is the Jays who last won 23 years ago. So this year a new group of fans will get to celebrate a World Series no matter what with no Yankees, Red Sox, Cardinals or Giants in sight. That's very cool.

Though I'm a Jays fan and I suppose this tidbit would make them the least deserving team. Both the Jays and Dodgers have won World Series titles in my lifetime which is not the case for Cleveland and Chicago. The Indians have not even done it in my father's lifetime and the Cubs haven't in my grandfather's. I think it's pretty obvious which teams are going to have more sympathy from neutral fans. Of course if it came down to Cubs/Indians wouldn't that be a little lame, that in order to end the suffering for one fanbase their team will have to crush the hopes of another long suffering fanbase?

NWR_insanolord:
The Cubs and Indians are the two teams that have gone the longest without winning a World Series out of all of them, not just among the ones still left standing.

Shaymin:
Stupid injury power rankings, baseball edition:

1) Glenallen Hill injures himself after waking up from a spider nightmare

2) Joel Zumaya misses a playoff series due to a repetitive stress injury caused by excessive Guitar Hero

3) Indians pitcher Trevor Bauer has to wait two days to pitch because of a finger injury from fixing a drone.

NWR_insanolord:
Not the first time Bauer's gotten himself into trouble with those things.

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